The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-31
WHAT THE WORLD SAYS
OF People Whom All Newspaper Reader
Are Supposed to Know.

OF People Whom All Newspaper Readers
Are Supposed to Know.
The Duke of Sutherland recently bought
| 10000 acres of Florida land.
Two actresses are trying to get Anna Dick
inson to write plays for them.
Sunset Cox's Turkish tale is to be published
| either this month or next.
Sarah Bernhardt's latest pct is q tiger cat,
| and the tiger cat is now fashionable beast.
Col Ingersoll says he will deliver no moro
anti-religious lectures His law practice takes
| all his time
| Electrician Edison is regarded with such
awe by the negroes in Florida that it is diff
| cult to get hands to take his apparatus from
| the boats.
| Barley Campbelrs most frequent delusion
is to fancy that he is Bonaparte or Grant
commanding vast army, or a Shakespeare
or Bulwer composing great play
| Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins recently presented
| a library consisting of S400 worth of books to
| the town of Davis, w. Va, on condition that
the citizens should furnish the room, which
was promptly done.
Miss Marie Van Zandt, the well known
of paralysis as to be able to walk about with
the use of q cane. Her complete restoration
is looked for soon.
Zanllof, the Russian paid Bulgarian trail
tor, was explicitly informed by the porte that
it refused to have further dealings with him
because Of his bad faith, falsehoods and gen
eral rascality.
An eccentric woman, Mrs Lizzie H. Mon
mouth, died recently at Canterbury, N. H
She wrote a pamphlet called Living on Half
a Dime a Day" Her circumstances were
once prosperous. but when poverty came she
| shut herself up in chamber. from the win
dow Of which she dropped a rope, in order
| that benevolent persons might attach aims
thereto
Craig Tolliver, the Rowan county Ky)
desperate, has been in Cincinnati purchasing
dry goods to the amount of $4,000 He is
now deputy sheriff of the county he has ter
rorized, is a peaceful and law abiding citizen
and has successful business. He never
drinks whisky, and has given up carrying a
revolver.
Princess Sarah Winnemucca is still success
fully running her school at Lovelock, New.
The Piute children are said to be apt scholars.
The school house is on the ranch of Chief
Nachcs, and the little boys are to be taught
how to cultivate the soil The moving spirit
III these educational projects is the princess
She has long been steadily striving for the ad
vaIcement of her people.
Sarah Bernhardt thus disposes of the horse
whipping incident in Rio Janeiro: "An un
happy, crazy woman, Mime. Noirmont al
that time member of my company, insulted
me, and l afterward horsewhipped her for Sc
doing; that's ALL Of course; in fact, why
nOt9' Mme. Bernhardt discovered she hat
eight cousins in Chilli She says she hate
Chilli, but is fond of her cousins
Professor Edward G. Pickering, the di
rector of the Harvard observatory, and hi
son, William H Pickering, an accomplished
specialist il starohotography, will hav,
charge of the scheme to establish a mountain
observatory under the Boyden bequest Al
: experimental station viii first be planted ol
some Of the great heights i'll Colorado, wher
an altitude of Il, 900 feet can be reached, 10
far from the railroads.
: The mother of Gen. Lew Wallace wa
Esther Test, daughter OF Judge John Test, @
Indiana. She was beautiful, refined an,
loving, with the serene manner and Tranquil
spirit natural to one brought up in the societ,
of Friends She lived but 20 years, and, los
to her children before her beauty faded, lef
in their minds a fair image OF perpetua
youth. In memory of that mother, th
gentle Esther, wife of Ben Hur, was named
, Professor Ichisuke Fujioka. graduate of In
perial College of Engineers, Toxic, japan
. and S. Yashima have been in this countr
+ since December last investigating electrica
;, appliances of all kinds, twith a view t
= their introduction in Japan. They are
present in Philadelphia Professor Fujioks
q who speaks Lnglish fuently, says: "W
9 have the incandescent system in several c
9 our, factories, but do not use the lights fc
: general Illuminating purposes. L expect t
,. go back in July, and will advocate the ger
i eral introduction of electricity in all il
forms